Watercolor Paintings, Drawings, Musings
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Early Memories - Ink drawing in my journal - click on the picture, if you really want to see it "big"
Me at age….almost 1 ? On old photos I find that I looked like a Mini-Sumo….well, babies often do, no?
in a letter to a friend:
…………….”This morning I was writing my journal, in bed, while playing with one of the cats, and drinking Coffee, lately I have taken up journaling again and it soothes me to do it in the morning.
I have been thinking for some time now of how to do a sort of curriculum vitae in images if I had time lol (makes me laugh) and this illustration could be an adequat answer to the question: since when do you paint?
or: when did it all begin?….
It is a bit provocative and really done quickly and without thinking, but that’s what I like about it,
cause it’s all about getting messy, too, isn’t it? – I could have drawn babypoop in, too. I’m not sure my parents let me play with ink at that age, but I think other things like water, jam, earth, (poop?) have served…………………………….”

A quiet corner in my father's garden, summer last year.... - Watercolor, ink, on 400 g Hahnemühle Paper
This morning, while frantically rummaging through some more or less new sketchbooks, I found this Hahnemühle Watercolor sketchbook, with very thick paper, which I love and completely had forgotten about, and two or three paintings I did during the summer vaccation last year in my dad’s garden….
I admit it. I am obsessive-compulsive with paper, especially sketchbooks, but paper in general. I’m always sketching, every day,, AND I’m always buying new sketchbooks before the old ones are full. Hmm. Confession time. November. LOL. Tell me that I’m not the only one…
working on a new project, winter is approaching, darkness begins at around 5, we need light.
I worked at the Salon de la Photo and did this sketch during a quiet moment – of which there were very few….
This morning, frustrated by what seems to look like lack of time, I grabbed some oil-pastels and partly colored this sketch. Of course, you have to lay some tissue paper into the double page of the Moleksine sketchbook, if you don’t want sticky bits of oilpastels everywhere on the page. I think this is a nice way to emphasize certain parts of a sketch which are important to you, – without having to drag out the watercolor when you just have some minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a big fan of fast art, but sometimes it’s either Fast or Nothing. Question of survival !
With love from Paris
Andrea

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